Magazines

TLmag bookzine-like magazines come-out every six months: spring/summer issues release on 1 June, autumn/winter issues release on 1 December. TLmag special editions are unique publications that spotlight a specific brand or event. Read in-depth stories in this international biannual print and continuous online magazine dedicated to curating and capturing the collectible culture. TLmag has evolved for nearly a decade with creative influencers that have shaped the contemporary art and design scene.

Artistic and scientific practices come together in the heart of this anniversary edition of TLmag, as it celebrates the end of its first decade. More than ever, archaeologists are operating in sensitive areas and in territories that have become increasingly difficult to access. By collaborating with contemporary artists and designers, modern archaeology opens up to other disciplines and transforms itself into a “platform of invention”, as our French partner INRAP (the French national institute for preventative archaeological research), which initiated European network NEARCH (www.nearch.eu), emphasises. Within their own space-time, the artists and designer-makers experiment and explore another dimension of our material culture, testing and defying the limits of the possible, interacting with the future and Utopia. History is breathing down our necks, just like the artefact-objects marking our existence and our relationships with one another. In the NEARCH special edition preceding this magazine, Kai Salas Rossenbach underscores the importance today of creating “an ‘ecotone’, a transition area between two biomes; archaeology and the plastic and visual arts are caught between the two dimensions: oikos, house, and tonos, tension. Along the farthest edges of their territories, these two exploratory fields open and enrich one another.”